Competitions Tour de France Fantasy 2024 - STAGE 20 - Sat 20th July 9:35pm

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I could be very wrong but all my calcs on the winning time suggested they may struggle to beat the 42 mins max time selectable.
I actually thought when I saw the time band that they would struggle to make the 42 minutes. This was after watching the Lanterne Rouge podcast, where they were estimating over 43 minutes, so the time band is definitely weird.
It's like they just looked at the distance and set it from there, without noticing there was a climb on the course! :rolleyes::p
 
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Well done @Old Big 'Ead for winning our comp! (I assume that's you? :))

And well done to @Ironhawk for jumping two spots onto the podium on the last day (and pushing me off! :mad::ROFLMAO:). Jorgensen > Almeida as the '4th leader' was decisive in the last few stages.

Thanks @Beg2Differ as well for organising and all the stats along the way, great comp.
 
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Well done @Old Big 'Ead for winning our comp! (I assume that's you? :))

And well done to @Ironhawk for jumping two spots onto the podium on the last day (and pushing me off! :mad::ROFLMAO:). Jorgensen > Almeida as the '4th leader' was decisive in the last few stages.

Thanks @Beg2Differ as well for organising and all the stats along the way, great comp.
Nice to finish things off with a stage win, but I cost myself a third consecutive overall victory with some dumb choices mid Tour, mostly not bringing in Girmay soon enough. Well done @Old Big 'Ead on winning overall, too good.

Thanks @Beg2Differ for running this once again, one of the few fantasy comps I do well at.
Thanks everyone. It's a great comp :) Well done to all as well. I learned a lot from last year, plus have learned a lot from @Ironhawk's comp that he runs.

Really picked up on those middle stages of sprints and ran with that. Had my share of luck with Hindley and Romo too. Picked Romo because he was getting points in the white jersey, then he goes in a breakaway - pure luck.

Not sure how Carapaz got that award, would have given it to Abrahamsen myself. Should only be 90 pts too as you highlighted.
Yes, Matt Keenan said that he thought Carapaz would pip Abrahamsen for this award because of him getting the yellow jersey early on and for being combative in the mountains, as opposed to the smaller mountain stages
 
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Wow this is a big call because I think it changed the overall winner.

The winner beat second by 2 points however they did not submit a time for the time trial so would have got zero points. Second place selected 40:49 which is 275 seconds from the winning time and would have got them around 17 or 18 points.

Wrong call in my opinion.
 
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The overall winner was a team named Rogerg7312 who scored 20299 points which was 1933 point more than @Old Big 'Ead. Here is what they did. Note that they did not submit a time for either time trial.

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Doesn't look anywhere near the optimal team for this, they still made some bad picks even though they won. Interesting to see their strategy anyway.
 
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1 quiz question every day (already on 5th).
Games are ruined by these stupid questions.:mad:
 
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Thanks @Beg2Differ for running this comp again this year, I had good fun!

I had to go different on the second last stage (to try take 1st place), trading Lazkano to De Plus, however this didn't work out how I liked. I was very close to getting Kelderman instead, and if I did, maybe I could've won but it wasn't meant to be. :)

Congrats to @Old Big 'Ead for winning, and @Ironhawk for 2nd, just pipping me on the last stage!
 
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Signed up for the Veulta Fantasy (same scoring as TDF).

If you want a shot at an extra credit or two, better hurry up cos the quiz questions are one per day until Thursday (need 200 points to get an extra trade).
 
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